William Arnold & Sons of East Peckham, Kent, was an agricultural engineering company founded in about 1844.[1]
In 1895 they acquired a licence to build Benz cars. As the Arnold Motor Carriage Co. from 1896[2] to 1898.[3] the firm built twelve cars patterned after the Benz but fitted with their own engines.[4] Two Arnolds were exhibited at Crystal Palace in 1896.[3]
Louise Bazalgette and William Arnold's partner, Henry Hewetson, were photographed at the historic "emancipation run" which is the race still celebrated by the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. This was the first time that cars were allowed to do 14 mph and it was the first meeting of the Automobile Club (for male drivers). Bazalgette was driving an Arnold motor car.[5]
One Arnold from 1896 was fitted with one of the world's first self-starters, by electrical engineer Herbert John Dowsing. This was a dynamotor coupled to the flywheel, designed to assist the car on hills and well as starting the engine.[1]
On 28 January 1896 Walter Arnold, of the Arnold (automobile) company of East Peckham, was summonsed for travelling at 8 mph (13 km/h) in a motorised vehicle, thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit for towns of 2 mph (3.2 km/h). He had been caught by a policeman who had given chase on a bicycle. He was fined 1 shilling plus costs, the first speeding fine in England, and thus became the first person to be convicted of speeding in the UK.[7][8][9]
^Rubashow, Tom (24 October 2008). "Shilling fine for 8 mph dash down high street". Kent and Sussex Courier (Paddock Wood edition). Courier Media Group Ltd.
^ ab. brooklands.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
^Lawrence, Margaret (1994). Bridge Over the Stream. East Peckham Parish Council. p. 14. ISBN0-9524828-1-9.
^Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004), "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. ref:odnb/74664, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74664, retrieved 20 December 2022
^. British Motor Manufacturers. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
^US History, Criminal Justice, The first speeding ticket. 3 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
^BBC Radio 4, The Eureka Years, by Adam Hart Davis
^. Archived from the original on 14 January 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
Other sourcesedit
"Arnold", in G.N. Georgano, ed., The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885–1968 (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1974).
External linksedit
of one of the two surviving Arnold cars
January 01, 1970
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